I Alone Am Immortal: My Rebirth and Leisurely Cultivation

Chapter 431 Let's recognize the class monitor as our godfather!

Since Lao Li's car wasn't there, the group had to walk to the bus stop to take the bus.

Fortunately, the station near No. 6 Middle School is not a major station with a large number of passengers.

After Li Yan and his group boarded the car, they all had seats.

Old Li and his companion sat in the back, while Li Yan and the other three sat in the front of the carriage.

"It's been a long time since I've taken the bus."

Jiang Yingzhu looked around and said, "I didn't expect that the buses have been replaced with electric ones, instead of the old oil and gas ones."

Hua Junshu and Mei Mengqian, who were sitting on either side of her, nodded in agreement.

After one stop, Jiang Yingzhu saw a familiar face in the queue outside.

"Mengmeng, Li Yan, look! Isn't that Cailing?"

Li Yan had already noticed, and after glancing at it, he stopped paying attention.

Jiang Yingzhu and Mei Mengqian, on the other hand, were pleasantly surprised and waited for Guo Cailing to get in the car to greet her.

Guo Cailing was in line when she boarded the bus and saw Jiang Yingzhu and others in front of her.

She immediately waved, "Zhuzhu and Mengmeng, you're here too."

“We’ll take the car too,” Jiang Yingzhu said.

Guo Cailing nodded and was about to step forward to swipe her card to buy a ticket.

But she noticed that the person in front of her hadn't moved. She looked over in confusion and saw an uncle standing awkwardly in front of her, swiping his card on the card reader, which kept making "card swipe failed" sounds.

"Um... what's going on?"

The driver was getting impatient. "Stand to the side first, don't block the back."

Guo Cailing felt sorry for the uncle, so she took out a fifty-yuan note and put it into the coin box.

"Uncle, I'll pay for you. Just transfer 48 to me."

Upon hearing this, the uncle nodded repeatedly, his face filled with gratitude.

"Thank you, little girl."

He took out his phone and scanned 48 for Guo Cailing, then went to the back of the carriage.

The driver looked at the two of them with a strange expression.

Guo Cailing didn't notice any of this and happily swiped her card to get on the bus.

"Bip! Student card!"

Guo Cailing stood next to Jiang Yingzhu, looking up at her.

"Zhuzhu, Mengmeng, wasn't I amazing just now?"

"Pretty impressive." Mei Mengqian nodded, gave a thumbs up, and looked at her with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot.

"This is the first time I've ever seen someone spend so much money on a bus ride."

"Where is the extra?" Guo Cailing asked, puzzled. "The uncle already gave me the money."

Upon hearing this, Hua Junshu cast a few glances at Guo Cailing, his gaze turning strange.

Jiang Yingzhu then asked, "Then let me ask you, how much is the ticket?"

"Two pieces."

"So how much did you invest?"

“Fifty,” Guo Cailing blinked.

She was initially quite satisfied because she didn't have online banking, and if she had exchanged that fifty yuan at a store, she would definitely have bought something.

However, hearing Zhuzhu and Mengmeng say this now, she panicked a little, trusting the top student.

"Yes, you put in fifty, which was all paid for by the uncle. Why did you ask him for forty-eight? It should be fifty."

"Oh, so that's it."

Guo Cailing suddenly realized, then felt a little sorry for the two yuan, and then felt a little embarrassed in front of Zhuzhu and Mengmeng, so she forced herself to say:
"I'll offer you a ride, uncle."

"What are you inviting me for?" Mei Mengqian almost laughed. "You paid the bus company for the ticket, why are you asking this uncle for change?"

"That uncle actually gave it to me, so it's like I spent forty-eight yuan on a bus ride."

Guo Cailing stared in astonishment, mouth agape. "So Uncle spent this much!"

She suddenly stopped caring about her two yuan.

She paused for a moment, then asked softly, "Could I give the driver the forty-eight yuan and ask her to return the fifty yuan to me?"

"???"

Jiang Yingzhu and the other two were speechless, so Li Yan helped them change the subject.

"Guo Cailing, where are you going?"

"Telecommunications Building".

Jiang Yingzhu was delighted. "Where are you going too? Shopping? We can go together."

"No." Guo Cailing's eyes flickered slightly, and she didn't dare to look at them.

"I signed up for a tutoring class to improve my physics."

Jiang Yingzhu and the other two were stunned. Tutoring class? What an unfamiliar term.

Hua Junshu and Mei Mengqian had never attended a tutoring class; they had only heard about it from their classmates and teachers.

Jiang Yingzhu did attend tutoring classes, along with Li Yan.

But that was a long time ago.

At that time, they transferred from rural towns to schools in the city.

Limited by the limited educational resources in the rural town, my English was not good, so I took extra English lessons.

"Tutoring? Do you spend all day in tutoring?" Mei Mengqian asked.

Guo Cailing shook her head, "No, I was doing my homework at home this morning."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yingzhu couldn't help but laugh out loud.

She thought about how hard others had to work to achieve the same score, and how she had already passed.

Moreover, she passed the exam without needing any extra tutoring, which gave her an indescribable joy.

Seeing Guo Cailing looking over with a puzzled expression, Jiang Yingzhu quickly suppressed her laughter.

"Don't overthink it. I'm not laughing at you for being stupid. I just thought of something happy, hehe."

Guo Cailing was puzzled, but Mei Mengqian and Hua Junshu could guess what Zhuzhu was laughing about.

Li Yan goes without saying, so he didn't hesitate to retort:
"Stop laughing there. How many times has your senior tutored you?"

Jiang Yingzhu was immediately stumped, as if every time she asked a question, it counted.

Her eyes widened suddenly as she began to wonder if she was truly a genius.

In the end, he still couldn't figure it out even when the bus arrived at the station.

After parting ways with Guo Cailing, Li Yan and the others followed Ms. Fang toward the pedestrian street.

Not long after they walked, passing by a food street, Jiang Yingzhu pointed to a stall selling stinky tofu and said to Li Yan:

"Li Yan, do you want to eat stinky tofu?"

How did you know I wanted to?

"Of course you want to, and you want four servings, right, Mengmeng, senior?"

Jiang Yingzhu looked to the side, and Mei Mengqian and Hua Junshu nodded.

Mei Mengqian said, "One of them shouldn't be too spicy."

"And one more serving with cilantro," Hua Junshu added.

Li Yan rolled his eyes, went to the stinky tofu stall, and bought four servings of stinky tofu.

Mr. Li and Ms. Fang did not eat it.

“We don’t eat food meant for children.”

Li Yan understood; after entering the workforce in his previous life, he didn't really enjoy eating snacks anymore.

However, I still find it a little hard to understand why people don't like stinky tofu.

The rest of the shopping trip wasn't too long.

Ms. Fang specifically chose to enter brand stores, but ultimately there were not as many brand stores as there were other stores on the street.

After going around the mall, Ms. Fang didn't buy much, but she did buy a set of clothes for Jiang Yingzhu and the other two.

Jiang Yingzhu was fine, but Hua Junshu and Mei Mengqian were a little embarrassed.

Li Yan stood by, carrying their bags, neither speaking up for them nor offering any advice.

Ms. Fang then bought a pair of shoes for each of the three women.

Li Yan then asked, "Mom, what about mine?"

“You can buy it yourself,” Ms. Fang glanced at him.

"I'll reimburse you."

"Then we don't need it."

Ms. Fang ignored him and instead pulled Jiang Yingzhu aside, looking at Mei Mengqian and Hua Junshu. She could, of course, see that the two were embarrassed.

"Just accept it, consider it a gift from your aunt."

"Thank you, Auntie," Hua Junshu and Mei Mengqian said in unison. They couldn't refuse, nor did they want to, so they had no choice but to accept.

"There's no need to thank me. You're all Xiaoyan's friends. I hope we can all be happy together in the future. This little gift is nothing."

Ms. Fang was about to say something more when Li Yan interrupted her, saying:

"Alright, Mom, where are we going for dinner tonight? It's already 5:30."

It was already dark at 5:30, and the streetlights were just coming on.

Old Li and Ms. Fang, along with Li Yan and others, arrived at Uncle's fried food stall.

My uncle and Lao Li now jointly run the Xiao Li Fried Skewers brand.

One is now primarily responsible for market expansion, while the other focuses on stabilizing the home front.

Therefore, the original shop no longer has the younger uncle.

Old Li came here to conduct an inspection and grab a bite to eat.

However, Lao Li was not recognized, but Li Yan was recognized first.

"Li Yan, you guys come and have some fried skewers too, do you want to join us!"

Turning my head, I saw Cheng Yuan, Zhang Wei, Ma Liang, and Xiao Shuai sitting together in the corner to my right.

"No."

Li Yan shook his head, walked over, and asked with a hint of curiosity:

"part time?"

“No, we’re here to eat properly,” Cheng Yuan said.

Li Yan nodded, without asking any further questions, said goodbye, and left.

Instead, Ma Liang and the others started talking about him.

"I didn't expect to run into Li Yan here again."

"That's normal, there's a lot of good food here."

Zhang Wei didn't take it seriously and glanced over there. "But it looks like they came with their parents."

Xiao Shuai, who was engrossed in his meal, was startled. He looked up and, sure enough, saw two people who were clearly Li Yan's parents.

He had seen the parents' meetings before.

"No way, Li Yan and Jiang Yingzhu have already met the parents?!"

Xiao Shuai took a bite of the crispy rice cake and was incredulous.

"Is it normal for all three of you to meet the parents together? Is that even possible?"

A few people started discussing it and then posted it in the group chat.

Chen Xiyuan: Of course not, who would meet their parents like that?

Yu Bing: It's just having a meal together, why are you all making such a fuss?

Xiao Shuai and the others were persuaded.

On the other side, Chen Xiyuan glanced at the night view outside the window.

I glanced again at my phone and the homework for today's tutoring on the table.

"I didn't expect that even after all my hard work, you guys would actually be having fun during the holiday."

He suddenly sensed a huge gap, and then his eyes blazed with an even stronger light.

"Human determination can overcome nature. This exam has already surpassed Ye Hui's score. It proves that neglecting one's studies will lead to a decline in grades."

Chen Xiyuan picked up his pen and continued working on the problems.

“Even if their grades don’t drop, they’re just standing still, while I’m making progress every minute. Sooner or later I’ll catch up, and even surpass them!”

At the same time, Li Yan was being subjected to the death stare.

"Why are you looking at me? If you didn't order mine, then I'll just have to eat yours."

Li Yan, Jiang Yingzhu, and the other two looked at each other.

Because he couldn't have three pairs of eyes, his eyes were constantly moving around.

It looks like they have ulterior motives.

"Are you blind? Why are you turning your eye around like that?"

Jiang Yingzhu felt that Li Yan was acting particularly silly.

Li Yan took another skewer of her pork tenderloin.

"I'm just spreading the love evenly."

Jiang Yingzhu ignored him and glanced at Uncle Li and Aunt Fang sitting at the table in front of her.

Make sure they can't see it, then strike hard.

boom!
"Don't take my meat anymore. Yours isn't fried yet. Can't you wait a bit?"

Li Yan squeezed her fist and rubbed it.

"So what? I'll pay you back double later."

Jiang Yingzhu was too lazy to talk to him anymore. She had sworn that she would never talk too much during meals.

They didn't eat much because they spent the whole afternoon eating and shopping.

Leave soon.

Xiao Shuai and the others, who watched them leave, were now completely certain.

"Li Yan and the others must have met each other's parents."

"By the way, who paid the bill?" Cheng Yuan walked back and asked, puzzled.

At the same time, return the money to the individuals.

"I just went to the cashier and they said the bill has already been paid."

"what?"

Ma Liang, Xiao Shuai, and Zhang Wei all looked puzzled.

Xiao Shuai quickly realized, "Since he said it's settled, then let's just leave."

Ma Liang was somewhat tempted; they had spent quite a bit of money on this meal.

Zhang Wei hesitated, "That cashier is just an employee, it's not really appropriate for us to do this, maybe we should go and ask."

Today they went out with Cheng Yuan to hand out flyers, and it seems that making money outside is still very hard.

It's more fun to make money in games, and you can even buy items to pick up girls.

Cheng Yuan agreed with Zhang Wei's opinion, so he said, "Then let's go take a look."

Seeing this, Xiao Shuai and Ma Liang did not object.

Cheng Yuan, as the captain of their weekend work team, is quite convincing.

The four of them went to the front desk, asked some questions, and received the answer.

"What? We're the boss's son's classmates, so the meal's free?"

"Li Yan is the young master!?"

"Xiao Li's fried skewers belong to their family!!"

Four migrant workers walked back to school, their hearts filled with感慨 (gǎnkǎi, deep feelings) about the gap between the world and the world.

"When did the class monitor become a rich kid?" Ma Liang was a little envious. Wouldn't he have an endless supply of fried skewers in the future?

Xiao Shuai had already recovered, "It's not a big deal. The class monitor's family was also well-off."

"That's just a milk tea shop, at most a few more, but they'll still be franchises."

Cheng Yuan also joined the conversation, saying, "These fried skewers are different; they're their own."

"I heard that Xiao Li's fried skewers became popular within six months."

Zhang Wei said from the side, "Before this, the class monitor wasn't a rich kid."

The three fell into deep thought, and Xiao Shuai immediately took out his phone and called his elderly father.

"Hey, Dad, have you eaten?"

"It's nothing, I was just checking up on you."

"Dad, work hard, achieve success at work, start your own company, and make a lot of money."

"Hey, hey!" Xiao Shuai put away his phone with a speechless look. "Seriously, why can't people finish what they're saying?"

Cheng Yuan and the other two looked at him speechlessly.

"If I were your father, I would hang up too, and I would curse him too."

Xiao Shuai rolled his eyes at him. "He already cursed me out, saying he'd use his truck to run me over during the next Chinese New Year."

Upon hearing this, the three fell silent. If the truck driver pushed any harder, wouldn't that be suicidal?
Xiao Shuai sighed.

"Our plan to make our fathers successful has failed. Brothers, do you have any good ideas?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Wei held up one finger and made a very clever face.

"Brother Xiao, I have a method that might go against your ancestors' wishes."

"Tell me your ideas, and if necessary, I can establish my own sect and become the patriarch," Xiao Shuai said with a serious expression.

Zhang Wei nodded seriously, "Brother Xiao, why don't you recognize the class monitor as your godfather, or the class leader as your godmother?"

(End of this chapter)